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Ear to the Ground 393: Risk Reducers
Episode 393
Alan Jostock uses the kind of diversity that builds soil health as a kind of insurance policy for his farm. That means meshing his crop and livestock…
9 months ago
Ear to the Ground 392: Diversity’s Diet
Episode 392
Farmer and small grains marketer Matt Kruger sees a rotation based on raising food grade crops as a way for farmers to get rewarded for building soil…
9 months ago
Ear to the Ground 391: Grounded in Grazing
Episode 391
Ashly Steinke remembers well the first time he saw a bobolink on pastured land that formerly grew corn and soybeans — it was a sign that he was succe…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 390: Sounds of Success
Episode 390
More Information:
• LSP’s Grazing & Soil Health Web Page
• NODPA Article on Kevin Mahalko
• Ear to the Ground 371: Avian Award
• Ear to the Ground 370…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 389: See Something, Say Something
Episode 389
Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Odette says in the battle to make sure Big Ag plays by the rules, knowledge is power. That’s why, if w…
11 months ago
Ear to the Ground 388: On-time Delivery
Episode 388
Scientist Kris Nichols finds the disconnect between food production and soil health “terrifying” and says the stakes are too high not to mend that br…
11 months, 1 week ago
Ear to the Ground 387: Dumping the Dirt Dogma
Episode 387
When farmers challenged what Kris Nichols had learned from her college textbooks, the soil microbiologist didn’t dismiss them — instead, she dug deep…
11 months, 1 week ago
Ear to the Ground 386: A Farm to School Taste Test
Episode 386
How a small, rural school district is taking a trial run at sourcing food from local farmers.
More Information:
• MDA Farm to School & Early Care Progr…
1 year ago
Ear to the Ground 385: A Longer Local Lunch Season
Episode 385
Jeanine Bowman believes having locally produced food on her school’s menu shouldn’t be a special occasion — it should be a daily part of nourishing k…
1 year ago
Ear to the Ground 384: Power Play
Episode 384
Ag antitrust expert Austin Frerick sees the current food system as a mechanism for modern robber barons to treat rural communities as mere “extractio…
1 year ago